TCI: Up Close and Personal

Posted by: Exoth℮rmic

One can't get sick of TCI. I have been there 4 times and there is still much that I have not seen. These pictures are freshly finished, but are from our initial visit almost exactly a year ago.

Link to full gallery on Flickr (~75 photos).

1. Note that no one will ever see this and the next particular scenes again. Sometime around the winter of 2009/10 all of the stacks in this image were inexplicably demolished by some nefarious entity.


2. The fact that the historic stacks were knocked over without any public notification or even any media coverage thereafter is a travesty in itself.


3. The otherwordly hot metal mixer.


4. Rust


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TCI Ensley Steel Works

Posted by: Naaman 


Built in 1888, the steel plant has been totally abandoned for well over 30 years, most of it for much longer.

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1909


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1. 2009


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4. Giant hot metal mixer


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11. Train 1


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15. First buliding


16. 1st Floor


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20. Door to the Safe Room


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27. Second Floor


28. A view lost in history. These stacks no longer stand.


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32. Basement
This place was a lot darker then what the pictures show.
This one was made with a 20 second exposure and a lot of flashlight action.


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34. The Warehouse


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40. Train 2


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